mongo66

It seems I've come across a stumbling block, something I had carelessly overlooked earlier on. Both LEGACY and 9.99.0.9 drivers share one common denominator: RAID Controller. As I mentioned in an earlier post, two driver integration is made possible by editing the relevant INF/OEM files. This is all fine and dandy, but when it comes to RAID Controller id's, *_NVRAIDBUS and *NVRAIDBUS, omitting them from either package will result in mismatched drivers being installed: nvgts.sys + nvraid.sys, or nvatabus.sys + nvrd32.sys Whereas keeping them won't eliminate the mismatched driver issue (on the LEGACY side of things) and may cause conflicts during Windows Setup due to the duplicate entries in TXTSETUP.SIF. Whatever the case, it doesn't look too promising for SATA RAID systems. Not exactly what I was hoping for, so it's a no go P.S. - What is it with NVIDIA and their drivers? Intel is so much easier to work with.

Thanks for your input! Quite some time ago, I created a BartPE live CD which included both your LEGACY and 9.99.09 driver sets: Intel_textmode_drivers_v8.7.0.1007_mod_by_Fernando nForce IDE 99909 for XP 32bit mod by Fernando nForce LEGACY 699 for XP 32bit built by Fernando Although it was a half-baked effort and purely experimental, I've had no problems using this CD on legacy or newer systems (so far). Unfortunately, I didn't go on to create a similar XP installation disc at the time. Over the past 2-3 years, I have created several XP discs with integrated drivers, none of which was an All-In-One solution. TBH, I'm fed up with having to sift through all these discs whenever I needed to use one. Therefore, I'm hoping to create a new disc based on what I had achieved with BartPE. textmode: - Intel 9.5.0.1037 WHQL (or should I use your modded package? please advise) - nForce LEGACY - nForce 9.99.0.9 (sataraid) pnp drivers: - nForce 9.99.0.9 (sata_ide) About the hardware IDs -- it only makes sense to remove duplicate entries; if only for the reasons you've mentioned. In creating the BartPE CD, the LEGACY inf/oem files were edited to "exclude" HWID's already present in the 9.99.0.9 package. While the only change made to the 9.99.0.9 configuration files was the removal of *_NVRAIDBUS and *NVRAIDBUS hardware ID's. Everything else was left intact. BTW, I messed around with the DriverPacks Method before, but never got it to work properly.

Hi Fernando, I want to build an XPSP3 installation disc which can support a wide variety of nForce-based systems. Ideally, I would like to integrate both LEGACY and the 9.99.0.9 drivers onto a single disc. Apart from me having to edit the INF/OEM files accordingly (to eliminate dupe entries), are there any drawbacks? I would like your thoughts/opinion on this. Thanks.